Samsung’s One Ui 8 Might Shut Down Bootloader Unlocking On Galaxy Phones

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 ships pinch One UI 8.

Samsung’s One UI 8 update seems to forestall users from unlocking their device’s bootloader to load civilization ROMs, arsenic spotted earlier by SammyGuru. Over nan weekend, users connected nan XDA Developers forum noticed that Samsung appears to person abnormal nan action connected devices successful regions extracurricular nan US, wherever nan action had already been locked for years.

By unlocking nan bootloader, users tin instal civilization package and make different modifications to their phone. Users discovered nan caller regularisation aft digging into nan codification of nan Settings app connected One UI 8, which ships pinch nan newly released Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Z Fold 7.

As pointed retired by SammyGuru and Android Authority, nan codification contains nan statement “androidboot.other.locked=1.” When this statement is group to “1,” it intends nan bootloader is locked, for illustration it is present successful nan US. Before One UI 8, this statement had antecedently been group to “0” to alteration bootloader unlocking successful regions extracurricular nan US. Users spotted nan regularisation wrong One UI 8 beta builds for nan Galaxy S25 arsenic well.

Samsung didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.